Another Fucking Wormable Miner Using BYOVD – Because Apparently 2026 Isn’t Shitty Enough Already

So some bright spark in a basement somewhere has decided that what the world *really* needs is a wormable XMRig campaign that uses BYOVD exploits and a goddamn time-based logic bomb. As if my life wasn’t already a never-ending parade of user stupidity and managers who think “the cloud” is a fucking magic pixie dust that solves everything.

Let me break this down for the non-technical idiots in the room: XMRig is a Monero cryptominer. Wormable means it spreads itself around your network like herpes at a freshers’ week party. BYOVD stands for “Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver” – which is hacker speak for “we’re going to use a legitimate, signed driver with more holes than the boss’s excuse for not giving us a budget increase.” These drivers, like those crappy Gygabyte and ASUS ones that have been floating around since 2021, let the malware get kernel-level access, disable your precious security software, and then mine crypto while you wonder why the SQL server is running slower than a dead tortoise.

But wait, there’s more! Some absolute bastard thought, “You know what this malware needs? A fucking TIME-BASED LOGIC BOMB.” So now this piece of shit waits, quietly sitting on your systems like a ticking shit-grenade, before it activates and turns your infrastructure into a mining operation for some neckbeard’s crypto wallet. It’s scheduled activation, which means it’ll probably go off at 2 AM on a Sunday, because the universe personally hates sysadmins.

The “good” news? It’s probably not after your data. The bad news? It’s after your CPU cycles, electricity bill, and what’s left of your sanity. Your systems will run like absolute crap, your power costs will go through the roof, and management will still ask why you need budget for security tools when “we have antivirus, don’t we?” Yeah. Sure. That’ll stop it. Just like thoughts and prayers stop ransomware.

Detection? Good fucking luck. The vulnerable drivers are *signed*, so they look legitimate. The miner payload is probably obfuscated six ways from Sunday. Your best bet is monitoring for unexpected driver installations, network traffic to mining pools, and that sinking feeling you get when you realise the weekend is cancelled. Again.

Read the full gory details here: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/wormable-xmrig-campaign-uses-byovd.html

The other day, some middle-manager asked me if we were “protected against this new crypto threat.” I told him we’d implemented a robust SHA policy – Should’ve Hired Adequately. He nodded thoughtfully and said he’d escalate it to the steering committee. I give up. Just burn it all down and start again with abacuses.

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